Leopard iCal Server, iPhone & MobileMe - best way to set up?

Hi there, hoping someone can help with this scenario:
In our office (approx. 30 people running Leopard), we connect to an iCal Server in order to have a shared CalDAV diary.
Currently, everyone logs in as the same CalDAV account. Within this account there are several separate calendars, one for each job number.
"332 Blah Blah Road"
"333 Etc Etc Street"
Our boss (and three others) have just bought new iPhone 3Gs and want to be able to:
a) have any shared calendar changes pushed to their iPhones when they are away from the office.
b) be able to make changes to shared calendars on the move and push them back to the iCal Server.
Would we need to get MobileMe (or several accounts) to do this? Apology for the ignorance, I have tried to look for information on this and got nowhere.
Can anyone suggest a way of getting this scenario to work? What are we doing wrong, or would we need an Exchange Server to achieve what we want?
Please feel free to patronise and start from basics!
Many thanks!
Message was edited by: Nicholas Wharton

Hi Nicholas,
In case it's not too late for you, I'd add the following "information bits":
- MobileMe is great for a single person. Getting multiple MobileMe's to talk to eachother may be possible, but MObileMe is clearly NOT advertised as for the small business.
That said, I still advocate all our team members to have MobileMe, just as a super-simple way to show/share images, for an added layer of backup redundancy, making transformation to newer laptops easier etc. etc.
Whilst some argue it is "too expensive", "can be had for free" etc., I am of the opinion 99 USD/y is a very small price to pay for the simplicity and comfort.
For GROUPWARE appslications (sharing calendars, contacts...), I would strongly recommend to look into KERIO Mail Server instead. It runs perfectly on our XServe, handles Outlook & Blackberry clients as well (there's always gonna be someone clinging on to a Berry-Device or using a PC until they understand how much better the Mac side is ). A 30-day demo is available, very easy to install and just make sure you don't get a conflict with your ports, as Kerio Webmail starts on port 80 (I disabled it, only allowing SSL connections) and your OS X Mailserver might run on it. Also perhaps an idea to deactivate your OS X Mail-Server in case you're using it on an XServe, if at all possible, otherwise make sure there are no port comflicts.
Hope this helps somewhat.
Jonas

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